About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Thursday, May 03, 2007

May 3......

May 3 is the 123rd (124th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 242 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Economic Justice "The 'trickle-down' theory: the principle that the poor who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals." — William Blum

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Obtuseness "Grown men should not be having sex with prostitutes unless they are married to them." — Jerry Falwell{Begging the question: Then should boys (not grown men) have sex with prostitutes?}

Thought for the day: "Creditors have much better memories than debtors."

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 1294 - John II becomes duke of Brabant/Limburg

● 1342 - Count Hartmann II becomes ruler of Vaduz (Liechtenstein)

● 1382 - Battle on Beverhoutsfield near Brugge

● 1455 - Jews flee Spain

● 1469 - Birth of Niccoli Machiavelli. Italian political thinker and historical figure in the turning point from Middle Ages to Modern World.

● 1850 - Sixteen year old Charles H. Spurgeon made his public profession of faith in Jesus Christ in a Primitive Methodist Chapel, in Colchester, England. Spurgeon began a preaching career the following year which did not end until his death in 1892.

● 1937 - Spain - Republican government attacks workers; beginning of open resistance to both Republican and Communist authorities by workers, anarchists, and other radicals, opposing the regional government takeover of the worker-run telephone company in Barcelona. Fighting spread to all parts of the city, lasting for four days. Stalinists denounce Trotskyite P.O.U.M. as "Franco's Fifth Column" in preparation for its own liquidation of independent radicals and anarchists.

● 1938 - Concentration camp at Flossenbürg goes into use

● 1938 - Vatican recognizes Franco-Spain

● 1939 - The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.

● 1942 - Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that resulted in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia.

● 1943 - Strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after 200 killed

● 1943 - US 1st armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia

● 1944 - Wartime rationing of most grades of meats ended in the U.S.

● 1944 - Dr. Robert Woodward and Dr. William Doering produced the first synthetic quinine at Harvard University.

● 1945 - 1st Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen

● 1945 - Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg

● 1945 - Indian forces captured Rangoon, Burma, from the Japanese.

● 1945 - World War II: Sinking of the floating-jails Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the RAF in Lübeck Bay.

● 1946 - World War II: The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo against 28 Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

● 1947 - New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.

● 1948 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities were legally unenforceable.

● 1949 - 1st firing of a US Viking rocket; reached 80 km

● 1951 - King George opens Festival of Britain; The King inaugurates the Festival of Britain at a service in St Paul's Cathedral and later attends a concert at the new Royal Festival Hall on London's south bank.

● 1951 - The United States Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.

● 1952 - U.S. Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict land a plane at the North Pole.

● 1972 - Cree and Inuit of northern Quebec file for permanent injunction to halt construction of James Bay Hydroelectric Project. They would fail, but 24 years later would succeed in stopping a second, even larger project.

● 1973 - The Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out as the world's tallest building.

● 1979 - Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher became Britain's first female prime minister as the Tories ousted the incumbent Labor government in parliamentary elections.

● 1994 - Ezra Taft Benson, thirteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1899)

● 1996 - Jack Weston, American actor (b. 1924)

● 1996 - Alex Kellner, baseball player (b. 1924)

● 1997 - Narciso Yepes, Spanish classical guitarist (b. 1927)

● 1999 - Steve Chiasson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1967)

● 1999 - Joe Adcock, American baseball player (b. 1927)

● 2000 - John Joseph Cardinal O'Connor, Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York (b. 1920)

● 2001 - Billy Higgins, American drummer (b. 1936)

● 2002 - Barbara Castle, British politician (b. 1910)

● 2003 - Suzy Parker, American actress (b. 1932)

● 2004 - Anthony Ainley, British actor (b. 1932)

● 2004 - Darrell Johnson, baseball player (b. 1928)

● 2006 - Karel Appel, Dutch painter (b. 1921)

● 2006 - Pramod Mahajan, Indian politician (b. 1949)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:● Feast of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa Queen and Protector of Poland (since April 1, 1656)● Feast of the Finding of the Holy Cross, aka the Invention of the True Cross.● St. Adalsindis● St. Alexander I● St. Anastasius XV● St. Ansfrid (c. 1008)● Sts. Antonia & Alexander (martyrs of 313)● Sts. Cantius, Cantianus, Cantianilla, & Protus● St. Crescentian● St. Diodorus● St. Ethelwin● St. Emily Bicchiere (1238 – 1314)● Sts. Eventius, Alexander, & Theodulus (martyrs of 119)● St. Exuperantius● St. Ferdinand III of Castile● St. Gluvias● St. Hermias● St. Hubert● St. James the Lesser, Apostle● St. Joan of Arc● St. Juvenal of Narni (d. 369)● St. Luke Kirby● St. Madelgisilus● St. Mechtildis● St. Paschasius● St. Philip, Apostle● St. Philip of Zell● St. Scannal● St. Thomas Du● St. Timothy & Martha● St. Venantius● St. Vitalis● St. Walstan● St. Winnow, Mancus, & Mybrad● Bl. Lawrence Richardson● Bl. Maurus Scott● Bl. Richard Newport● Bl. Thomas Cottam● Bl. William Filby

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for April 21 (Civil Date: May 3)● Hieromartyr Januarius, Bishop of Benevento, and his companions: Festus, Proculus, and Sosius deacons; Desiderius, reader; and Eutychius and Acutius, laymen; at Pozzuoli.● Hieromartyr Theodore of Perge in Pamphylia, his mother Philippa, and Martyrs Dioscorus, Socrates, and Dionysius.● Martyr Alexandra the Empress (same as April 23).● Martyrs Isaacius, Apollo, and Codratus of Nicomedia.● St. Maximian, Patriarch of Constantinople.● St. Niphont, Bishop of Novgorod (Kiev Caves).● Repose of Schemamonk Nicetas of Valaam (1907).

● Discoflux (Discordianism).

● Constitution Day in Poland (1791) and Japan (1947).

● World Press Freedom Day.

● Lesotho : King's Birthday

● Northern Ireland : Bank Holiday

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"● Zambia: Labour Day - (Monday)● New Orleans: McDonogh Day (1850) - (Friday)

IN FICTION

● 1985 - Date of $5 million check in "View to a Kill"

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Life long Liberal. Actually saw JFK on campaign trail. Defining moment of my life was the assassination of JFK. First presidential election I participated in was knocking on doors for McGovern, have been tilting at windmills ever since.